Pope Francis is truly a class act. The man’s genuine good intentions, his attempts to include everyone and his desire to reform the most archaic and bogged down institution in the world have...

“The difficulty,” the seminal economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” True, but in today’s...

After yesterday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers, heads of state will convene in Brussels to try and find a solution to the impasse in Europe’s migrant crisis. The EU’s...

The business of the rewriting of history is growing and growing. We have recently seen the celebration, if that is the word, of the 450th anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta watered down so...

So Minister Joe Mizzi, whose fuse is not noticeably long, upped and left a press conference because of persistent questioning by a Net News reporter who would not take No for an answer and would not...

A few days ago I was invited to take part in a discussion on certain bioethical issues on Dr Andrew Azzopardi’s radio show on Radio Malta. One of the invited phone-ins was Parliamentary...

This week holds a special significance for this country and for the Nationalist Party. This year, the Nationalist Party will celebrate the 135th anniversary since its founding. It will also be...

Time and time again we have seen Europe and the world at large recoil in shock and horror at the multiple shipwrecks in the Mediterranean that have claimed, between them, thousands of lives. Last...

It has been a while since stopped wondering why some people are so negative about all the good results attained by this government. There were times when I was led to believe that they could still...

During the last few days we have been hearing more and more about the euro. Not only has Slovenia taken up this currency officially, but in the years to come so will the other nine members which joined the European Union in May 2004...